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Displaying from Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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May 2012
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Tuesday 08 |
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Dr Una Mcllvenna
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Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.
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Thursday 10 |
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Violin Cello Duo: Sophie and Jasmin Parkinson Stewart
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Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Dr Amara Lakhous - "Reforming Islam from the Outside" : Multi-Award Winning Author Dr Amara Lakhous is an Algerian-born Muslim writer. He is the recipient of the Italy’s Premier Literary Award.
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Born in 1970 in Algiers in a Berber family, Amara Lakhous is the sixth of nine children. He studied at Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after (...)
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week's service features an extraordinary work for triple-chorus by 16th century Italian composer Andrea Gabrieli, and music by Gustav (...)
Come down and watch classic films by Jean Renoir, Cassavetes, Bergman, Kurosawa and many more every Thursday at 6pm.
Venues TBA via http://www.facebook.com/uwafilmsociety and http://www.facebook.com/groups/242259162472394/
19:30 - CONCERT - Music Students' Society - Chamber Music Concert : Featuring works by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn
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A student concert of chamber works featuring Shostakovich's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's String Quartet.
Tickets at the door: MSS members and music staff - FREE, non-members $10.
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Thursday 17 |
6:30 - PERFORMANCE - Dawn Eucharist : Dawn Eucharist for Ascension Day with the Winthrop Singers
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Join the Winthrop Singers bright and early to celebrate the Feast of The Ascension.
William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Reading: Matthew 5: 38-48
Motet: Philips, Ascendit Deus
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : String Quartet Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh
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2011 Flora Bunning Memorial prize winners Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh present and exciting program for string quartet, featuring Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"
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Friday 18 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson: PROJEKTET : Resident Artists talk at SymbioticA
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The immune system can be seen as the metaphorical factor of applied performance, which makes the latter artistic practice more than simply social work. Transposed into a functional nomenclature, the immune system makes a larger body stay healthy by encountering visitors (pathogens) by way of (...)
The flourishing vocal program at UWA's School of Music presents an exciting program of music by UWA Senior vocal students.
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - The vocal program at The School of Music, UWA Presents "The Mikado - in absentia"
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What happens when you have a show needing a chorus of men and five major male leads, but only five men and not a tenor in sight, too many women who are all suitable to sing the two major women leads, no budget, no sets, no props, a bare music auditorium and a grand piano?
Answer. UWA (...)
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Sunday 20 |
International concert pianist, Bernadette Harvey is renowned for her commitment to Australian music. Since winning the ABC "Young Performer of the Year" as a young woman, her career has taken her all over the world to great acclaim.
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Tuesday 22 |
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - Women Beware Women : English playwright Howard Barker's re-visioning of Thomas Middleton's Jacobean revenge tragedy
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Five nights only. From Tuesday May 22 through to Saturday May 26, at 8pm. $20 full; $15 concession. Tickets at door.
Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies present contemporary English playwright Howard Barker’s revisioning of Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean revenge tragedy Women Beware (...)
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Thursday 24 |
17:15 - SCREENING - Berndt Museum Film Night : Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976, 51 minutes, PG)
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The film demonstrates how villagers living in the Trobriand Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, transformed the game of cricket into their own form of ritual and fun. Methodist missionaries introduced cricket to the Trobriand Islands in 1903, the residents then altered the game to represent (...)
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform a choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
Responses: Tomkins
Psalm 101
Old Testament Reading: Genesis 47:13-19
New Testament Reading: Hebrews 8:1-7
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Saturday 26 |
15:30 - CONCERT - Perth Undergraduate Choral Society First Concert of 2012 : Join PUCS and Rock Scholars for an all-ages musical journey through fifty years of popular music
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WHEN: Saturday 26 May 2012 at 3:30pm
WHERE: Perth Modern School Auditorium, 90 Roberts Road, Subiaco
TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.trybooking.com/BJCX
Adults $25, Concession $20, Family $80
You are invited to join the Perth Undergraduate Choral (...)
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Thursday 31 |
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform a choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week features a Nunc Dimittis by a member of the choir, settings of John Donne, and a Te Deum by New Norcia composer Dom Moreno.
Respo (...)
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June 2012
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Friday 01 |
In a synergy of sound, the UWA Symphonic Chorus and Symphony Orchestra blend strengths in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop Hall. Under the direction of resident conductor Alan Lourens, experience the depths of emotion of these remarkable works.
Wagner Meistersinger Overture/Hindemith Mathis der (...)
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Sunday 03 |
14:00 - EVENT - Bruce Bennett: A Celebration of His Life and Work : Family, friends and colleagues will gather to celebrate the life and work of Bruce Bennett.
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The Westerly Centre, Philip Mead (Chair of Australian Literature), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold an event to celebrate the life and work of one of the most respected and admired scholars and teachers in Australian literary studies, Bruce Bennett, who sadly (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
Oliver Messiaen's ethereally stunning twentieth century masterpiece first premiered in 1941 to an audience of Messiaen's fellow prisoners of war at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Gorlitz, Germany.
On this viciously cold night hundreds were offered hope, Graeme Gilling (piano), Ashley (...)
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